Fun Facts About Taiwan

DID YOU KNOW THAT¦
Taiwan won the 1996 Little League World Series in the U.S Ccity of Williamsport. Baseball is the national sport in Taiwan.

DID YOU KNOW THAT
Like France, Italy and the United States, Taiwan
is very famous for its films in the world. The prizes attained include
the Golden Lion awarded by the Venice International Film Festival to
Hou Hsiao-hsien's "City of Sadness" (1989). In 2001, Ang Lee's
"Crouching, Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won four Oscars at the 73rd Annual
Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best
Music, and Best Art Cinematography.He is considered one of the best
film directors of all times. Ang Lee was born on October 23, 1954, in
Pingting, Taiwan.

DID YOU KNOW THAT
Lu Hsiu-lien (Annette Lu) was vice president of Taiwan from 2000 to
2008. On December 9, 2001, she became the first woman to be awarded the
World Peace Prize from the World Peace Corps Academy. She announced her
intention to run for Taiwan's President in 2007 but withdrew her bid.
Lu Hsiu-lien was born on June 7, 1944, in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

DID YOU KNOW THAT
Taiwan hosted the Miss Universe pageant in 1988. Ironically, Miss Taiwan, Jade Hu Fei-tsui, did not even make the semi-finals.

DID YOU KNOW THAT
Different from Cuba, Myanmar and Vietnam, Taiwan is a democratic
country. Freedom and democracy are more than just slogans in Taiwan.
The first article of the Constitution National says "The Republic of
China (or Taiwan), founded on the Three Principles of the People, shall
be a democratic republic of the people, to be governed by the people
and for the people."

DID YOU KNOW THAT
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Lee Yuan-tseh. He was born on November 19, 1936, in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

DID YOU KNOW THAT After the Cold War, Taiwan emerged as one of the most powerful economies in the Third World.

DID YOU KNOW THAT Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan,
is Asia's capital of art and culture. It is home to some of the
most famous museums in Asia. Taipei's National Palace Museum has the
world's largest collection of oriental art treasures. Much of the
immense collection of porcelain, jade, sculptures, paintings, and
bronze is regularly rotated. The National Museum of Prehistory is a
famous Taiwanese museum situated adjacent to the Puyuma archeological
site in Taitung County.

DID YOU KNOW THAT On November 9, 1961, Miss Taiwan, Grace Li,
competed in the international beauty pageant Miss World, held in
London, England. Miss Taiwan was the first runner-up at the Miss World
1961.She was long considered one of the most beautiful women in Taiwan.

DID
YOU KNOW THAT Master Chen Yen is known by many as "The Mother Teresa of
Asia". She is an advocate for the poor and homeless in Asia. In 1996,
Chen Yen was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against
poverty.She once said: " The Buddha became the Buddha because he gave
up his life to save people. Donating our bone marrow does no harm to
us. We can save people without hurting ourselves. So, I hope you
donate. I also hoped to set up a Data Bank of 20,000 donors, or 50,000
donors, or 100,000. If there is a Bank of 100,000, the opportunity for
a patient to be saved will be as high as 95%."

DID YOU KNOW THAT Taiwan has competed in the Winter Olympic
Games 9 times (Sapporo-1972, Innsbruck-1976, Sarajevo-1984,
Calgary-1988, Albertville-1992,Lillehammer-1994, Nagano-1998,Salt Lake
City-2002 and Turin-2006). Taiwan did not have participants in 2010
(Vancouver, Canada) and 2014 (Sochi, Russia).

Alejandro
Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer. Alejandro is of Italian,
African and Peruvian ancestry. He has studied political science and
journalism. He has published more than seventy-five research papers in
English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues,
olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called "The
Dictator and Alicia Alonso". He is an expert on foreign affairs.
Futhermore, Alejandro is the first author who has published a
world-book encyclopedia in Latina America.

He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), Hillary Clinton
(ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the
USA). His favorite film is "Gorillas in the Mist".Some of his favorite
books are "The Return of Eva Peron and the Killings in Trinidad" (by
V.S.Naipaul), "Las Mujeres de los Dictadores" (by Juan Gasparini) and
"Murder of a Gentle Land" (by John Barron and Anthony Paul). His
personal motto is "The future is for those people who believe in the
beauty o f their dreams" by Eleanor Roosevelt.